Vice Adm. Ted Branch: Roles of Electronic and Information Warfare Staring to Blend as Community Matures
The Navy’s senior information warfare officer defined the terrain he is working in as a combination of electronic and cyber warfare with a goal for this year updating the service and joint strategies to create a set of guidance for the community that, “means something.”
Speaking Monday at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space 2016 Exposition, Vice Adm. Ted Branch said, “We’ve moved more into warfighting” in ways similar to undersea and space.
He said the reception in the Navy to the shift has given information warfare more recognition and more acceptance in the service. It means being seen “not just as enablers” in providing information technology but as a warfighting community.
As an example of the change in approach not only in the United States but with allies as well, the U.K. will be hosting an information warrior exercise in two years with a number of nations participating. It likely would be similar to the Rim of the Pacific international exercises the United States hosts, he said.
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